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title: At his cousin's birthday Kieran knows nobody and hides in the kitche… — Joining a game, and the shy kid · tree and pragmatics
description: At his cousin's birthday Kieran knows nobody and hides in the kitchen with the dog, until his auntie hands him a bowl: «Be a love, go round with the crisps.» Suddenly everyone talks to him, mostly about crisps. Who acts: Kieran, auntie, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy
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# Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 14

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At his cousin's birthday Kieran knows nobody and hides in the kitchen with the dog, until his auntie hands him a bowl: «Be a love, go round with the crisps.» Suddenly everyone talks to him, mostly about crisps.

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**Who acts:** Kieran, auntie, everyone · **What happens:** know, hide, hand, be, go round, talk · **To what, where:** nobody, birthday, kitchen, bowl, Jake, love

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy kid» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kieran, auntie, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:14
# text = At his cousin's birthday Kieran knows nobody and hides in the kitchen with the dog, until his auntie hands him a bowl: «Be a love, go round with the crisps.» Suddenly everyone talks to him, mostly about crisps.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	auntie	auntie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hands	hand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
27	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
31	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
32	round	round	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
37	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
38	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:advmod
39	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	40	nsubj	_	_
40	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
45	about	about	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Kieran | nobody |  | Jake's cousin's birthday |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hide** | present | Kieran *not said here* |  |  | the kitchen |  | with the dog | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Location |
| 3 | **hand** | present | Jake's auntie | a bowl and a love | Jake |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bowl=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | Jake's auntie *not said here* | a love |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go round** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the crisps; round *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with crisp=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **talk** | present | everyone |  | Jake |  |  | about crisps; suddenly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent about crisp=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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